CHA PERE: Xo Vel. 
VALUE OF SORGHUM IN SUGAR PRODUCTION. 
Capacity of Sorghum for Sugar Production as ascertained by 
Analysis and Experiment—Analyses by Dr. Jackson, of Boston 
—Prof. Lawrence Smith, of Louisville—Analyses in France by 
Madinier and Vilmorin—Extended series of Experiments made 
by Mr. Jos. 8. Lovering, of Philadelphia—Observations upon a 
Report of Analyses made by Dr. Wetherill in the Laboratory of 
the Department of Agriculture, at Washington. 
In order to arrive at a true estimate of the value of this — 
plant in sugar production, some established variety of it 
must be assumed as a standard of comparison: and it is 
to be regretted that for want of due care on the part of 
planters in preserving the purity of the cane, no one va- 
riety can at present be selected which, making due allow- 
ance for differances of soil, climate, and culture, is of an 
entirely uniform character. This is especially true of the 
Chinese sorghum. Yet I am convinced, from my own ex- 
periments and those of others, that care in preventing hy- 
bridization of the cane, and providing for it the conditions 
of successful cultivation already indicated, improvement in 
saccharine richness, as well as in the general vigor of the 
plant, will be the uniform result. Instead of a juice mark- 
ing in the unclarified state 7° or 8° Beaumé, this variety 
with me now marks regularly not less than 10°—often 12° 
—with an average of 11°, or 94° when properly clarified, 
and containing seventeen or eighteen per cent. of saccha- 
rine matter—unearly all of which is true cane sugar. 
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